Image: From UN.org - LIFG, who is now leading, arming, and funding (via Qatari, Saudi, Turkish, US, and British cash) entire brigades of the so-called "Free Syrian Army," is clearly listed as an integral part of Al Qaeda, with the UN noting several prominent LIFG terrorists occupying the highest echelons of Al Qaeda's command structure. These resolutions reflects other reports previously covered, including the US Army West Point Combating Terrorism Center report, ""Al-Qa'ida's Foreign Fighters in Iraq" (summary here).

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This
means that the United States, the UK, NATO, and the Gulf State despots
of Saudi Arabia and Qatar are knowingly and willfully funding, arming, and politically backing designated
affiliates of Al Qaeda contrary not only to US and British anti-terror
legislation, but contrary to numerous UN resolutions as well. Western and Gulf
State support of the FSA constitutes state sponsorship of terrorism.

Should the UN fail to enforce its own resolutions, while playing host to
further sanctions and considerations for military intervention against
the Syrian government who is in fact resisting an international terrorist organization, it will have entirely resigned its legitimacy and
authority as nothing more than a tool of Western corporate-financier
interests. It will also highlight the necessity to expediently remove and replace it - ideally with a system that represents a multipolar balance of global power maintained by sovereign nation-states rather than untenable supranational governance.

As previously reported (and here), both British and American journalists have clearly identified and
documented the presence of foreign fighters with militant extremist ties
pouring over the Turkish-Syrian border, most recently in an attempt to
overrun the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. CNN, whose Ivan Watson
accompanied FSA terrorists over the
Turkish-Syrian border and into Aleppo revealed that indeed foreign
fighters were amongst the militants. It was admitted that:

Meanwhile, residents of
the village where the Syrian Falcons were headquartered said there were
fighters of several North African nationalities also serving with the
brigade's ranks.

A volunteer Libyan
fighter has also told CNN he intends to travel from Turkey to Syria
within days to add a "platoon" of Libyan fighters to armed movement.

On Wednesday, CNN’s crew met a Libyan fighter who had crossed into
Syria from Turkey with four other Libyans. The fighter wore full
camouflage and was carrying a Kalashnikov rifle. He said more Libyan
fighters were on the way.

The foreign fighters, some of them are clearly drawn because they
see this as … a jihad. So this is a magnet for jihadists who see this as
a fight for Sunni Muslims.

Foreign Policy magazine in an article titled, "The Syrian Rebels' Libyan Weapon,"
has gone as far as writing a two page profile on Libyan Islamic
Fighting Group (LIFG) commander Mahdi al-Harati and his role in leading
the so-called "Free Syrian Army." Also recently, the Council on Foreign
Relations, a premier Fortune 500-funded US think-tank, wrote in their
article, "Al-Qaeda's Specter in Syria," that:

"The Syrian rebels would be immeasurably weaker today without al-Qaeda in
their ranks. By and large, Free Syrian Army (FSA) battalions are tired,
divided, chaotic, and ineffective. Feeling abandoned by the West, rebel
forces are increasingly demoralized as they square off with the Assad
regime's superior weaponry and professional army. Al-Qaeda fighters,
however, may help improve morale. The influx of jihadis brings
discipline, religious fervor, battle experience from Iraq, funding from
Sunni sympathizers in the Gulf, and most importantly, deadly results. In
short, the FSA needs al-Qaeda now."

Clearly then, US, British, NATO, and Gulf State aid is being sent to the FSA whose ranks are admittedly filled by Al Qaeda.

Also, to be clear, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) is in fact
an affiliate of Al Qaeda with its commanders having occupied the highest
echelons of Al Qaeda's command structure and having participated in
every combat engagement Al Qaeda has conducted since its inception via
US-Saudi cash and arms in the mountains of Afghanistan in the 1980's.
This was documented meticulously in the US Army's West Point Combating
Terrorism Center report, "Al-Qa'ida's Foreign Fighters in Iraq."

Foreign Policy's admission of al-Harati's role in organizing and leading
the FSA in Syria, and the inclusion of Libyan terrorists in his brigade
are by no means the only role LIFG is playing in the Syrian violence.
LIFG commander Abdul Hakim Belhaj had visited the Turkish-Syrian border
in late 2011 pledging Libyan arms, cash, and fighters to the FSA - with
the nation of Libya itself having already become a NATO-created
terrorist safe-haven.

It is clear that LIFG, and by implication Al Qaeda, is playing a
significant role in the violence in Syria, not only undermining the
narrative of the unrest being an "indigenous" "pro-democracy uprising,"
but also implicating foreign nations who are funding and arming
militants as state sponsors of terrorism.

Included amongst these state sponsors of international terrorism are
Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the Hariri faction in northern Lebanon,
as well as the NATO-installed government of Libya. This also includes
both the United States, who is admittedly providing cash and equipment for the FSA as well as coordinating efforts to arm militants, and now the UK once again with their latest announcement.

A similar scenario unfolded in Libya,
where LIFG terrorists were likewise carrying out a campaign of
nationwide genocide with NATO providing air support. Similarly, by
funding, arming, and coordinating acts of violence with LIFG fighters,
NATO, and in particular, France, England, and the United States, were
guilty of violating both their own respective anti-terrorism
legislation, as well as international provisions against terrorism.